For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

God’s desire is that we excel.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.